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FRITZ BENDER, OF MIIHLI-IEIM, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO FARBWVERK MUHLl-IEIM, VORMALS A. LEONHARDT (it 00., OF SAME PLACE.

AMIDONAPHTHOLDISULFO-ACID AND PROCESS OF MAKlNG SAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 606,437, dated June 28, 1898.

Application filed December 22, 1897. Serial No. 663,041. (Specimens) Patented in England October 14, 1895, No. 19.253,

and in France July 21, 1896,1I0. 258,853. I

T aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRITZ BENDER, chemist, doctor of philosophy, residing at Miihlheim-on-the-Main, Grand Duchy of I-Iessen, Germany, have invented new and useful I'mprovement-s in the Manufacture of Amidonaphtholdisulfo-Acid, of which the following is a specification, and for which patents have been obtained in France, No. 258,853, dated July 21, 1896, and in Great Britain,No. 19,253, dated October 14., 1895.

My invention relates to an amidonaphtholdisulfo-acid of the following formula:

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. This acid, which I call acid B and which finely-powdered 1.8 amidonaphthol 3 sulfoacid is poured, without cooling, into five parts, by weight, of ordinary concentrated sulfuric acid. By stirring the monosulfoacid first gets into solution, but soon the disulfo-acid begins to separate. After some hours the mass is poured on ice, the whole is dissolved by adding hot water, and the acid B (or, rather, its acid sodium salt) is precipitated in a crystalline state by salting out with common salt.

The thus-obtained new product has the following properties: It is easily soluble in hot water, but with difficulty soluble in cold water. The alkaline watery solution shows an intensely-violet fluorescence. The diazo compound is soluble in water with an intenselyyellow color,which by carbonate of soda turns By boiling with dilute sulfuric to violet.

matters.

Now what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is the following:

1. The process of producing 1.8amidonaphthol 3.5 disulfo-acid, which process consists in sulfonating 1.8 amidonaphthol 3 monosulfoacid, substantially as described.

2. As a new product the new 1.8 amidonaphthol 3.5 disulfo-acid having the composition being easily soluble in hot water, but with difficulty solublein cold water, the alkaline solution showing an intensely-violet fluorescence, the diazo compound being soluble in water with an intensely-yellow color which by carbonate of soda turns to violet; the said acid when boiled with dilute sulfonic acid at 140 centigrade yielding 1.8 amidonaphthol 3 sulfo-acid and when heated with dilute caustic-soda lye up to 230 centigrade yielding 1.8 dioxynaphthalene 3.5 (4.6) disulfo-acid, and being adapted to form an acid sodium salt.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRITZ BENDER. Witnesses:

RICHARD WIRTH, EVA SATTLER. 

